... Look not upon the newspaper when it is read. Go and buy a fresh one. It having been announced that a cashier had absconded, leaving a large deficit, an old lady wondered why he didn't take it with him so as to have something to live on during his exile. A man recently had a pair of pants built for hira. When he tried them on he found them very tight, and. he complained to the tailor. Can't ...

... The thermometer is one of the few things that can fall without hurting itself. The ticket-of-leave man waits upon the order of his going. A bank is a bad place for delicate young clerks and bald-headed cashiers; so much exposed to drafts, you know. The following epigram, a poetical rendering of a tipsy colloquy between Pitt and Dundas, is as fresh to-day as when first repeated:- Pitt.-I cannot ...

... IA T-ERRIBLE T-ALE OF Tir T-ROPICS. led The following brief narration is a reapitoulactin nds Of the ornery and priration which once occrrred to me, :Tes the When soy horse had shied and thrown me, as I crsed a Ind desert lonely. 1OW' And it soon woo plainly shown vme I'd a dislocated knee. 1to Ton My horse had run away, and for sany days I lay byt Beneath the cnn's fierce ray in an agony of ...

... EXIIBITION OF MODERN JAPAINESE AIRT IN LIVERPOOL. Wlithin as many year, as mnay Ie counted on the fingers, Japanese art, especiaily that of the euame!- . ler, has oniv core to be known in this country. d The word cloisoanM, for instance, now Lluderstood by y the least learned in such matters, was then known Lr but to a fev connoisseurs who had made a special ae study of the art. It is true ...

... TE DR AMA IN PAR IS%. (t'ItO~i 0151 OW ()\N ?? .N ~.ln I. L PAl'IS, Tiluu~auAY.SE.FOIttli DsA~tAi~i20Ii5.iAi OjfieVc~ttf, whichIS ?? than the ordjinary r11i Of such pieces, hlas beeni brougt out a;t this Iso(s, slitler tise title of Lee Posspnes (le l'In1fante. Its libretto is by AM. Henri ?? ?? Liorat, and its score by Di. Charles (Grisart. The story, rather tiresometly toll iI three acts and ...

... 0 The Edinburgle Review, in an article on the I recently published Reminiscences of Thou. Carlyle, says :_ Some fifty years ago TMr Carlyle addressed to i a young mau of letters then entering upon life a brief letter, couched in the ffollowing words-we'] have them now in writing before us ?? Remember now aid always that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality, based upon eternityand ...

... In his lively book, Black, Boers, and n-ri tish: a Threecornered Problem (Macmillan and Co.), Mr. F. R. Statham mixes up history travel, and'politios in % moit'readablea and in- teresting fashion. Mr. Stthani edited the Natal Wifwem during the period of the Zulu ,war, end his experienee of Su A frica was acquired during a reiidence there of a little' more than three years. He went out with ...

... THrEATRpICAL GOSSIP. MnDa BeCICAULT'a reception on Boston has, in its cnthunsiasm, been un1preCedented. After eppeariug in soef the Now Esgiand tos, te eminent otor-ath proposes to play in Now York for two weeks, and in Brooklyn for one week. His rooms on board the Arizona, sailing May 10th, for Liverpool, are already engaged, and he hopes to be among his Eraglish admirers again about May 20th ...

... SOUTH KENSINGTON DRAMATIC CLOUD. South Kensington has lone a great deal for art, and we may hope, in course of time, that the Sooth Kensington Dramatic Society will do credit to the locality in theatrical matters. At present something remains to be done ere the Society can claim to reach a high standard of performance even as amatcurs, but the rendering of a farce and comedy which foemed the ...

... brigt ad ?? Truth/.) Bat, as The Corner is the resort of everyone an town en , bigh an sumymornings, flare ?? in wrapped to the chin in fute. or slender in a tight-fittingI jacket that owes its wonderful toureirea, less to the A.wearer's figure than to the tailor's art. Hiere are the ay latest fashions displayed, and to the best advantlage. We can see at a glance that anl unnattiral ...

... E S T HE R. Yes, Bertha has sent me a letter; What is it about? I've read it a dozen times over- I can't make it out, Dear Esther is dead, she has written, Dead Esther is dead. I say the words over and over, They run in my head, I've read each word letter, by letter- She writes a good hand- Bat what is the sense in it, Carrie 7 I don't understand. I say the words over and over, They go ...

... ?? I GEMTS OF THOUG HT. principles, lim troops of the line, are undisturbed and stand fsst.-Ric1*ftr. Anxiety disfigures the face of prospority and renders it like a crystal glass blown up by impure breatb.-W. Be'cker. Too many, through ivant of prudence, are golden ap. preuticeR. silvor jounrfeymean, and copper masters.- FUNzrUALITY.-I Owe everything in the world to being alwuys a quarter of ...